On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:44:01 -0700, Space Cadet wrote:
Quote:
> Dear all,
>
> The Windows Vista site suggests there's an upgrade price if I'm moving up
> from Windows 2K Professional. My Recovery Disks are from way back in the year
> 2000, and came with a ThinkPad. But of course my ThinkPad isn't going to run
> Vista -- it'll be a new machine, possibly barebones.
>
> I want both 64-bit and 32-bit, so I'm going to buy this retail.
>
> The question is: Can I now buy RETAIL Vista at the UPGRADE price? Or is MS
> going to stick me with the full retail price?
>
> Is there any kind of warning when I buy the upgrade that it can only be
> installed on the original machine?
>
> Finally, this 'upgrade' question applies to my MS Office 2000 Professional
> Edition CDs. I can't imagine they are identified as OEM, since they aren't
> recovery disks.
>
> Thanks for the help and best wishes.
There have been numerous posts to this newsgroup indicating that the
upgrade package will indeed do a fresh install.
Your best bet for an ms office upgrade is probably to install
OpenOffice.org - at least it won't cost you anything but a few minutes of
your time.